(poem)

place prejudice
in lust and resentment

only to come home
to alcohol
church songs
combined in bedrooms

postcards and poetry
litter the bathroom
where the razors
and the soap
echo evident emptiness

the person i once knew
writes only songs now
visit my arms like a stranger
never has the intent of coming back

the assimilation
comprehension
of augmented adjacent
sounds

is only the apparent behavior
of perversion;
love
and redemption